Friday, April 26, 2024
6:30/Doors • 7:00 pm
The LaGrua Center
Featured Poet:
Tina Cane
Opening Voice:
Youth On The Mic
Music From:
Thomas Benfield
Admission $15 / Students are free
E-mail: info@theartscafemystic.org
The event will be at La Grua Center
32 Water St, Stonington, CT 06378
We will have chairs and a limited number of tables available.
Masks are optional.
Tina Cane
Tina Cane was born in Hell’s Kitchen, NYC in 1969
and grew up in the city’s East and West Village. She attended the University of Vermont, the Sorbonne and completed her master’s degree in French Literature
at the University of Paris X-Nanterre and Middlebury College.
She is the founder and director of Writers-in-the Schools, RI, for which she works as a visiting poet. Over the past twenty-five years, Tina has taught French, English, and creative writing in public and private schools throughout New York City and Rhode Island.
Her poems and translations have appeared in numerous publications, including Spinning Jenny, The Literary Review, Tupelo Quarterly, The Common, Poem-a-Day.
Her work,The Fifth Thought, was the 2008 Other Painters Press chapbook winner.
Her books include The Fifth Thought,Dear Elena: Letters for Elena Ferrante, Once More With Feeling, and Body of Work. Tina was the 2016 recipient for
the Fellowship Merit Award in Poetry from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. She currently serves as the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island where
she lives with her husband and their three children. In 2020, Cane was named a poet laureate fellow with the Academy of American Poets. Tina is also the creator/curator of the distance reading series,
Poetry is Bread.
Alma Presses Play, Tina's debut novel-in-verse for young adults readers, will be released in September 2021 with Penguin/ Random House Books..
Thomas Benfield is a singer/songwriter from Mystic. He studied documentary poetry at The New School and has worked as a fact-checker and a reporter for Artforum, Vulture, New York Magazine, and most importantly, The New London Day. In May, he will be recording with Grammy-nominated musician Kenneth Pattengale (The Milk Carton Kids) and Vera Sola. Thomas currently works as a chef at Nana’s in Mystic. He lives in Pawcatuck with his wife, Sophie, and their tiny little pit bull Petunia. He loves The Arts Café Mystic and thanks its supporters for supporting the arts locally.